45 Olympic Logos and Symbols From 1924 to 2022

Last week I visited my friend in Sochi, Russia and I couldn’t help but notice Sochi 2014 symbols all over the place. This made me look into history of Olympic logos and the oldest I could find was dated back to 1924. Well, I didn’t spend too much time Googling older ones, so if you find any other logo, please let me know and will add it to the list.
I did notice that Sochi has the first logo that features domain extensions in it (Sochi.ru). Most likely we will see similar trends in the upcoming years. I was surprised that some of those logos use flat design which became popular only few years ago. Hopefully no one will ever come up with logo that features barcode or some other useless “innovation”. Olympics logos must be kept clean and easy to remember and so far each country has done an amazing job with it.

Here goes the entire Olympic logo collectio from 1924 to 2016. Which one is your favorite logo and which one is the worst?

London – Summer 2012

Sochi – Winter Olympics 2014

Rio – Summer 2016

PyeongChang – Winter 2018

Tokyo – Summer 2020

Beijing – Winter Olympics 2022

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Thanks for the link. I don’t think Arial and Univers are ever the same typeface. Plus if you look at the graphic standards you’ll see the “recreator” didn’t get the relative widths of the symbol and “Montréal 1976″ right either. There are far too many computer artists/designers and companies blatantly ripping off other designers’ work without permission, usually very poorly because they are not being fairly paid, and the example here is at that level. Did anyone think to ask the Olympics organization themselves if they had a scan of the real thing? That would solve many problems.